Be cunning, play cunning, and become versed in craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps formed from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French moved down south and located safety in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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